peter_stoeckl (11486) [2018-03-19 3:42] Buongiorno Luciano,
powerful presentation of this group of fresh snowbells. Very closely approached, you are bringing out the blossom in front monumentally large. Wideangle settings are showing also a good part of the rest of the group, and they are also allowing a good impression of the landscape around. I like the well considered composition, and the pleasantly cheerful appearance of your image.
Thank you! With best regards,
Peter

peter_stoeckl (11486) [2018-03-19 3:32] Hello Seyfi,
a very detailed, closely approached powerful capture of this pretty and rare little butterfly. The flat angle of light coming from a strong evening sun is casting some shadows from vegetation onto the wings, and at the same time it is showing the buttery's shapes very three-dimensionally.
The image may look a bit too tightly framed. Showing a bit more of the surrounding plant parts might be recommended if the original image has been closely cropped for this presentation.
Very detailed, well informing notes, too. Thank you!
With best regards,
Peter

peter_stoeckl (11486) [2018-03-19 3:19] Hello Musa,
an eye-catchingly attractive close-up. The flat angle of light helps to present this tiny blossom three-dimensionally outstandingly well formed. Your "toy's" white balance seems to have been a bit over-responding to the flower's strong yellow by adding a strong blue tint to the background. That may look a bit "unnatural", but at the same time it has added a pretty expressive artistic touch to your image. Thank you!
With best regards,
Peter

peter_stoeckl (11486) [2018-03-19 3:03] Hello Laurens,
this is a very impressing masterpiece of professional macrophotography.
The tiny beetle is shown with perfect details all over in true colours in pleasantly soft light.
Also the composition is excellent.
Thank you! With best regards,
Peter

peter_stoeckl (11486) [2018-03-18 14:15] Dear Laszlo,
emotionally moving view over the snowy hills of eastern Hungary on a bright and very clear day in late winter of 2013. The valley is leading the spectator's view far out into the distant plains. The warm brown hues of naked deciduous trees are embraced by the cold blue of distance and the patch of snow in the foreground. Your picture is telling the ambiguous story of farewell to your beloved homeland Hungary, and the excitement immediately before the daring step of starting a new life in the distant and quite different country Ireland that now has become a beloved second homeland to you.
Cheers to the Irish Hungarian on St. Patrick's day - and to your 400th posting to TN!
With best regards,
Peter

meyerd (7267) [2018-03-18 10:09] Hello Seyfi,
I like your shot of this Silver Line butterfly a lot. What an exotic looking Lycaenid ! The evening light introduces a color shift which can be compensated only partially with the color temperature setting in PS. Another method is the use of a flash with disperser. The best part is your careful and detailed note which introduces us also to ID books and even entomological societies in your region.
Thanks a lot for presenting this in TN. Greetings, Dietrich

meyerd (7267) [2018-03-18 9:58] [+]Hi Laurens,
that is a wonderful macro of this TINY Apion, Laurens. It looks almost transparent and thanks to the good background there is a strong 3D impression. I really have to look up the details of your technique, it seems as if you used an auxiliary flash with diffusor or something. Well done, congratulations.
Greetings, Dietrich

anel (40548) [2018-03-17 11:15] Hello Seyfi,
A most beautiful butterfly this Libanese Silver-line. Excellent sharpness and fine colours. May be a little more space on the left would have made the composition more balanced.
Kind regards
anne

peter_stoeckl (11486) [2018-03-16 9:38] Dear Gert,
wonderful, refreshingly colourful portrait of the rare Clouded Apollo in a pleasantly relaxed pose of sucking nectar from Geranium blossoms on a bright sunny day of early summer!
Thank you for your visit and kind words to my recent posting of the Caucasian Apollo Parnassius nordmanni. You mentioned the obvious close relationship between that endemite species of high altitudes of the Caucausus and the Clouded Apollo P. mnemosyne of our European hills and lowlands. They do look and behave quite similar, P. nordmanni still showing some red aposematic coloration like its larger and widely distributed relative P. apollo, while P. mnemosyne's patterns have completely abandoned those eye-spots. While P. apollo caterpillars are feeding on Sedum and Sempervivum, P. nordmanni and P. menmosyne have chosen a very different family of plants for their larval food: Corydalis.
With thanks, and best regards,
Peter

peter_stoeckl (11486) [2018-03-16 9:22] Dear Gert,
very exciting, charming encounter with this speedy day-active little hawkmoth, taken from a perfect low side-frontal point of view, perfectly focussed with a sufficiently short depth of field that allows a sharp view of exactly the main the parts of interest while blurring the vegetation around into a perfectly clean distant background, Wonderful! Thank you!
With best regards,
Peter